"I felt like I own the world high," another user said. "Like I have power nobody has. A really nice feeling."

"There was no fear anymore after I took Captagon," a third man added.BUT IT ISN'T JUST FIGHTERS, "DEATH SQUAD MEMBERS" WHO TAKE THIS DRUG.'40% of young Saudi drug addicts taking Captagon'Arab News (Jeddah)SAUDI PRINCE BUSTED IN LEBANON SMUGGLING 2 TONS OF CAPTAGON AND BAGS OF COCAINE

On 26 October 2015, a member of the Saudi royal family, Prince Abdel Mohsen Bin Walid Bin Abdulaziz, and four others were detained in Beirut on charges of drug trafficking after airport security discovered two tons of Captagon (fenethylline) pills and some cocaine on a private jet scheduled to depart for the Saudi capital of Riyadh.SEE: "Saudi Royal, Four Others Detained in Beirut Captagon Bust". NBC News. AND The prince was arrested and taken in for questioning along with four other people.The Saudi embassy in Lebanon is exerting direct pressure on the Lebanese authorities over the involvement of one of its princes in a major drugs
smuggling attempt.Security Sources told Al-Manar that Saudi Deputy Minister of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Fawwaz Al-Shaalan met Lebanese Interior
Minister Nuhad al-Machnouk later on Monday.The sources said that Riyadh is trying hard to exclude the prince from the trial process.What was uncovered on Monday October 26, 2015 about the involvement of
one of the grandsons of Abdul Aziz Al Saud (Abdul Mohsen bin Walid bin
Abdul Mohsen bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud) completes a series of the regime
scandals and its relationship with promoting drugs inside the kingdom.The following month, Agence France Press reported that the Turkish authorities had seized 2 tons of Captagon during raids in the Hatay region on the Syrian border. The pills, almost 11 million of them, had been produced in Syria and were being shipped to countries in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf.SEE: "Turkey seizes 11 million pills of 'Syria war drug': Reports". The Times of India (Istanbul).

The production and sale of fenethylline generates large revenues which
are likely used to fund weapons, as well as combatants on both sides
using the stimulant to keep them fighting. CAPTAGON IS FREELY DISTRIBUTED TO WHAT IS CALLED "SAUDI DEATH SQUADS".

SEE:"The tiny pill fueling Syria's war and turning fighters into superhuman soldiers". The Washington Post. According to a Reuters report published in 2014, the war has turned Syria into a "major" amphetamines producer -- and consumer."Syrian
government forces and rebel groups each say the other uses Captagon to
endure protracted engagements without sleep, while clinicians say
ordinary Syrians are increasingly experimenting with the pills, which
sell for between $5 and $20," Reuters reported.VOICE OF AMERICA notes that while Westerners have speculated that the drug is being
used by Islamic State fighters, the biggest consumer has for years been
Saudi Arabia.

In 2010, a third of the world's supply — about seven tons —
ended up in Saudi Arabia, according to Reuters. VOA estimated that as
many as 40,000 to 50,000 Saudis go through drug treatment each year.

SAUDI ARABIA TRULY IS THE CAPTAGON DRUG KINGDOM OF THE WORLD.The famous story about the daughters of late Saudi King Abdullah bin
Abdul Aziz, Hala, Maha, Sahar and Jawaher, who are still imprisoned in
his royal castles is not a new one. Many stories were written about the
issue, and many interviews were conducted with their mother, Princess
al-Anoud al-Fayez who is based in London. "Saudi prisoners of conscience were detained at the psychiatric ward,
injected with drugs and were subject to torture and humiliation,"
according to what Hala Abdullah Abdul Aziz Al Saud witnessed, as she had
been working as a trainee in some of the mental disease centers.

The
princess's objection on such a way of dealing with the prisoners made her
a victim of the same way. She was injected with drugs and imprisoned
before her health status deteriorated, and she was then isolated from
her sisters.

"Servants in the castle tended to add drugs for my
daughters Maha and Hala. Some of them couldn't make it, so they were
fired. Others gave up on the order. Jawaher and Sahar demanded that the
servants stay outside their residential place, so that the tragedy won't
be repeated," said al-Anoud al-Fayez.

This is how Al Saud dealt
with their own children... it is not surprising anymore that their
princes are the ones flooding the country with drugs that would crush
the Saudi people.According to late UN statistics, the rate [of] drug addicts inside the
kingdom hits 150 thousand persons.Saudi Arabia is also the first among
Gulf countries in the number of addicts whose ages of 70% of them
range between 12 and 20 years.

Perhaps the dangerous issue is
what had been shown recently in studies that 10% of the elementary level
students (11 years old and less) are addicted to drugs, the percentage
increases to 33% for intermediary level students (up to 15 years old),
and 38% for secondary level students (up to 18 years old.)

Saudi
Arabia is considered among the countries MOST addicted to Captagon. The
2013 UN report on drugs in the world shows that one third of the overall
quantity of Captagon that was confiscated in the world was in Saudi
Arabia.

Thus, Captagon is the first on the list of drugs there. It was
also described as "the excellent Saudi drug."YEMEN THWARTS DRUG SMUGGLING BY SAUDI ARABIAOn Monday, May 21st of 2012, the first drug confiscation operation was
registered in the Yemeni Sa'ada province.

Huge drug quantities were
taken to Saudi Arabia.On that day, the Ansarullah Movement announced it
spoiled the quantity after it frustrated the smuggling attempt. It was
"a part of our responsibility in front of Allah since this dangerous
issue is one of the damaging weapons the enemies of the nation are using
in their war against our youth and children to destroy them, damage
their values, and waste their abilities," according to the movement's
statement on the time.After the September 21st, 2014 revolution, Yemeni Security Forces and
revolutionary committees succeeded in confiscating such operations.

"Controlling this smuggling phenomenon had a great impact on the Saudi
policy towards Yemen," according to the sources.

This was confirmed by
the Saudi Ministry of Interior on September 1st, 2015 when it announced
that the rate of smuggling drugs from Yemen to Saudi Arabia decreased to
80%, relating this to the "positive results" of the aggression.

In a BBC documentary entitled "Captagon: Drug of the Syrian War," its
producer, Lebanese journalist Radwan Mortada narrates from "Abu Souss"
(a nickname for an important political opposition person who funds
Captagon factories in Syria) that "selling the Saudis Captagon made him
make a lot of money."

After the Syrian crisis, some of the
Syrians tended to trade Captagon and promote it in exchange of money and
weapons. As a new phenomenon, many drug factories emerged in the middle
and east of Syria.

International reports say that manufacturing
Captagon flourishes in southeastern countries in Europe: Slovenia,
Serbia and Bulgaria, and they are smuggled via Turkey to Syria and
Jordan until they reach Saudi Arabia...

SHORTER ROUTEHence, smuggling drugs from Lebanon happens through the Al Saud Princes'
private planes.. with a royal stamp [of approval]. The boost of manufacturing drugs in
Syria is due to the Saudi money flooding this business. In Yemen,the
kingdom's men and businessmen sponsor the smuggling operations, which
damage the Saudis whether kids, youth or detainees. Even the sons and
daughters of the princes are not safe from drugs in case they didn't
abide by the royal decisions inside the Al Saud castles.

BY SHARIA LAW, DRUG RUNNING IS PUNISHABLE BY BEHEADING. HOW DID THE SAUDI PRINCE ESCAPE CERTAIN DEATH?BECAUSE HE'S A SAUDI PRINCE.Beheading is legal today only in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Qatar and Yemen,Amputation as legal punishment is still practiced in a number of countries, among them Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Islamic regions of Nigeria. They were also common in Afghanistan under the Taliban.

BUT NOT ONE IN THE SAUDI MONARCHY HAS BEEN EXECUTED FOR SIMILAR AND GREATER CRIMES!THEY CAN DO MURDER, RAPE, DRUG RUNNING, TRADE IN HUMAN SLAVES, KEEP SEX SLAVES, DRINK ALCOHOL, SMOKE MARIJUANA, GAMBLE, COMMIT HOMOSEXUAL ACTS, ALL FORBIDDEN BY SHARIA LAW, ALL PUNISHABLE BY DEATH OR FLOGGING, AND YET THE MONARCHS GET OFF SCOT FREE.

On November 25, 2007, a Saudi man was beheaded by sword for committing homicide. His execution brought the country’s official number of beheadings [in 2007] to 151.
This number was a new record, standing in stark contrast to the 2006
total of 38 and far exceeding the previous record of 113 beheadings in
2000.

BUT THE SAUDI PRINCE FILMED BEATING HIS MANSERVANT TO DEATH?NO BEHEADING SENTENCE.

WHY DON'T THE PEOPLE OF SAUDI ARABIA SEE THIS AND DEMAND EQUAL JUSTICE?FEAR...FEAR OF RETRIBUTION. In 13 countries around the world, all of them Muslim, people who
openly espouse atheism or reject the official state religion of Islam
face execution under the law

Death, often by public beheading, is the punishment for either
blasphemy or apostasy - renouncing belief or switching to another
religion...which is also protected under U.N. accords.

But this year's more comprehensive study showed six more nations allowing death sentence for that, bringing the
full list to Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Nigeria,
Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and
Yemen

UNDER SHARIA LAW, RAPE VICTIMS HAVE NO HOPE.

In Pakistan, it is reported that three out of four women in prison
under its Hudud laws [these are the laws of what it forbidden and
permitted by Allah himself], are rape victims.

Because rape is
equated with zina [unlawful sexual intercourse] under Hudud law, rape
victims are required to produce four pious male witnesses. It is of
course nearly impossible for the rape victims to produce the four male
witnesses required to prove their allegation.

Therefore their police
report of rape was taken as a confession of illicit sex on their part
and they were duly found guilty

Al-Saud was taken into custody and booked after 4 p.m., according to reports. He was released on Thursday afternoon.Al-Saud posted a $300,000 bond Thursday and was released.

Los Angeles police Capt. Tina Nieto told the newspaper that authorities
determined the prince does NOT have diplomatic immunity in the case — a
protection other foreign nationals have recently tried to claim.ALSO PUNISHABLE BY DEATH IN SAUDI ARABIA ...HOMOSEXUALITY...BUT NOT FOR ITS PRINCES WHO ENGAGE IN HOMOSEXUAL ACTS..

A homosexual Saudi prince jailed for life in Britain for killing his
manservant is to serve the rest of his sentence in his home country.

He told police that the victim had gained his injuries in an attack
on a London street "weeks before", but the hotel's CCTV footage recorded
the attack. The judge had declared he had used Mr Abdulaziz, originally from Sudan, as a "human punch bag"SO, LET'S GET THIS STRAIGHT, BRITAIN HAS MADE WIKILEAKS' FOUNDER JULIAN ASSANGE A PRISONER SANS TRIAL FOR YEARS AND WILL NOT LET HIM LEAVE BRITAIN DUE TO, THEY SAY, ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT IN ANOTHER COUNTRY, BUT BRITAIN ALLOWS A PROVEN MURDERER, A MAN FILMED DOING MURDER, TO GO HOME TO THE ARMS OF HIS SAUDI MONARCHY FAMILY, WHO WILL SURELY NOT THROW HIM IN SOME FILTHY PRISON WHERE OTHERS LIKE HIM ARE KEPT?DOES BRITAIN ALWAYS SEND ITS CONVICTED MURDERERS BACK TO THEIR HOME COUNTRIES TO SERVE THEIR SENTENCES FOR MURDER?NO.THIS SAUDI PRINCE IS A SPECIAL CASE.

67 percent, said they would continue acting in accordance with their
religious beliefs if the Parliament passed a law that contradicted
religious laws. At least 85 Islamic sharia courts are operating in Britain, a study claimed yesterday. The astonishing figure is 17 times higher than previously accepted.

All three of
the women claim to have seen the royal having his penis 'stroked' by a
male aide and say they were forced to stay in the room and watch as the
encounter unfolded.

Homosexuality is illegal in Saudi Arabia, and punishable by flogging, or even execution.

Another
says she was made to watch while a different male aide bent over and
broke wind in Al Saud's face – apparently at his request.

He also
threatened to kill one of the women if she refused to 'party' with him
and jumped on top of another and began rubbing himself against her in a
'sexual and aggressive manner'.

When asked to stop, Al Saud allegedly then yelled: 'I am a prince and I do what I want. You are nobody!'

THE PRINCE HAD USED COCAINE AND WAS ALSO VERY DRUNK, WITNESSES SAY.

The women
then attempted to leave the mansion but discovered they had been locked
in by Al Saud's aides and were told they were not allowed to leave.

It
was then that the royal threatened to kill the third woman, telling
her: 'You are going to go upstairs. I will be there in two minutes and
you'll do whatever I want. If not, then I'll kill you.'

Al Saud then, it is alleged, became even more agitated and began to 'scream and make animal like sounds'.

At
this point the women managed to leave the house but without their
personal possessions – forcing them to return the following day.

[WHY DID THEY GO BACK FOR 'PERSONAL BELONGINGS WHEN THEIR LIVES WERE THREATENED? ]

Once there, they were told that Al Saud had 'slept off' the drugs and alcohol he had consumed and would not bother them anymore.

However,
after telling aides they did not want to continue working for the
prince, they were threatened with forfeiting their wages and were again
locked inside the house on the grounds that the royal needed '24-hour
service'.

When
they did finally encounter the prince again, he was, say the women,
being masturbated by another man who was 'stroking his penis'.

But when they attempted to leave the room, the 29-year-old spotted them and ordered them to stay and watch.

Felony charges against Al Saud were dropped by the Los Angeles
District Attorney but prosecutors can now bring misdemeanor charges
against him.

BAD, BAD MOVE L.A. LAW!!!SHAME!IT ISN'T THE FIRST FAILURE OF AMERICAN JUSTICE WHEN IT COMES TO HOUSE OF SAUD. In 2013, a Saudi princess named Meshael Alayban was arrested in
Irvine, California on charges that she imprisoned and abused a Kenyan
house servant. The L.A. Times said that the victim accused Alayan of imprisoning her and treating her as slave labor.

She has since successfully sued the late king's son, winning a historic UK High Court case.The
late king’s son has been ordered to pay Harb £12 million (US$17
million), according to a deal that was struck with the king before his
death.

Harb told RT she has turned to the media in the hope that the Saudi royal family will face up to its duties.

“Every
time you confront the Saudis, they tell you – instead of asking or
finding the truth – ‘Oh! Maybe she was a prostitute, maybe she is a
money digger’… Since he [the former king] didn’t take responsibility for
his father’s reputation, he bears the blame himself.”

Women’s
rights in the country have often been in the spotlight: a few months
ago, a Saudi woman posted footage of her husband sexually abusing their
maid.

However, it was the wife who was facing a year in jail in the end,
due to the Saudi law on revenge videos.SHE IS IN DANGER OF BEING STONED!

FROM AN IRANIAN REPORT:

Debauchery and vices in the Al Saud family will ruin the country05 December 2014[POT CALLING KETTLE BLACKENED MUCH?]"The conscience of the rulers of Saudi Salafis killed tens of thousands
of civilians, including women and children, the most vile and heinous
methods - from cutting heads to public eating the internal organs while
still being alive. That alone is enough to bring to the international
court in The Hague the aged King Abdullah and his security forces led
by Prince Bandar, the now former head of intelligence KSA, for crimes
against humanity within the kingdom, as well as in the aforementioned
Arab and Islamic countries, also for the genocide against the Shiites in
Saudi Arabia, and the Sunnis, too. A good place to start would be to
put all of them in a cage..."

KNOWN TO FUND TERRORISM.

[AGAIN, VERY HYPOCRITICAL OF IRAN, YES?]"But [funding] terrorism - this is only part of the problem of the royal dynasty.

No less serious threat to its continued existence is an extreme moral
decay of most members of the clan of Al Saud and the so-called princes,
whose number exceeds 300 people.

...Sexual orgies representatives [in] Al Saud
family should be added and other "entertainment" absolutely immoral
plan. And in the first place - is homosexuality (sodomy).

Not being a
homosexual by nature, many Saudis satisfy their sexual lust with men as
with women. And do it in a very distorted
form, after reading the relevant literature published in the West. It is
clear that when he was a Bedouin goatherd and verblyudopasami, Al Saud practiced [it?] in the absence of women. But now, when for their
petrodollars they can buy almost all accessible and inaccessible
beauties anywhere in the world, this is no way to justify the
nitty-gritty of life of the shepherd in the Rub al-Khali.

For "active"
gay-Saudis preferable, according to "experts" from within the Kingdom,
European men, passive - blacks, Arabs or Pakistanis.

Another sin, which is subject to many
"decent" royals KSA - is pedophilia, which thrives in "Prince" and
"sheikhs" not as a natural defect from birth,but simply a moral
perversion of satiety due to an excess of petrodollars."...also in the course of bestiality, members
of Al Saud dynasty. Apparently, mating with animals - from dogs to
sheep and camels, it is only for some "sheikhs" and "princes" a way to
satisfy their sexual fantasies when sex with people already sick.
Looking for animals. Especially that the ancestors of Al Gardens,
grazing goats in the desert, too, were doing. But, they did it in the
absence of other ways to have sex, and even 1500 years ago, when the
Bedouins of Arabia morality were at the Stone Age. This may partly
explain the fact that the Saudi sponsors are not averse to finance armed
extremist organizations, the gunmen who most brutally victimized
prisoners, hostages and civilians. Animals because animals prefer.

Against this background, drug and
alcohol abuse among the total Al Saud seem childish. Prohibiting the
sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages within the CSA, the royal
family is the main controller of contraband alcohol in the amount of 3.4
billion. USD. Per year. After the oil - is the second largest source of
income."

MAYBE MUCH IS LOST IN TRANSLATION OF THAT ARTICLE, BUT MORAL DECAY, SEXUAL PERVERSIONS, 'WESTERNIZATION', FUNDING TERRORISTS AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY FORM THE BASICS OF ITS CLAIMS AGAINST THE HOUSE OF SAUD.

IF IRAN WERE THE ONLY OTHER MUSLIM NATION TO MAKE THESE ACCUSATIONS AGAINST THE SAUDI MONARCHY, WE MIGHT DISMISS IT ENTIRELY, BUT MANY OTHERS HAVE LAID THE SAME CLAIMS AGAINST HOUSE OF SAUD.

A SIMPLE GOOGLE SEARCH BRINGS UP MANY SUCH CLAIMS BY OTHERS.

A READ THROUGH ARREST REPORTS AROUND THE WORLD INVOLVING SAUDI MONARCHS ALSO SHOWS A CLEAR PATH TOWARD SCANDAL INSIDE THE OIL RICH KINGDOM.

THEY SAY POWER CORRUPTS AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY.

WHEN ANY NATION'S LEADERS ARE "TOO RICH TO PROSECUTE", TOO POWERFUL TO BRING TO JUSTICE, SOMETHING IS WRONG.

SOMETHING IS VERY, VERY WRONG WITHIN SAUDI ARABIA'S RULING FAMILY.

SAUDI CITIZENS DESERVE BETTER...DESERVE TO SEE JUSTICE METED OUT TO ALL, NO MATTER THE FAMILY GUILTY OF A CRIME.

"Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, Sheikh
Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, the kingdom’s top religious authority in the
ultra-conservative Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam, has ruled it’s
acceptable for men to marry girls so young the West would deem it
nothing short of pedophilia and rape.
Despite the Saudi justice ministry’s failed efforts to date to set 15
as a minimum age to marry a girl in the kingdom, Grand Mufti Abdulaziz
declared there is nothing prohibiting Muslim men from marrying girls
even younger.

Grand Mufti Abdulzaiz’s more recent
ruling on marrying young girls comes following a similar ruling in 2011
by Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, a prominent cleric and member of the Saudi’s
highest religious council, who issued a fatwa, or religious edict, that
there is no minimum age to marry girls, “even if they are in the
cradle.”
Fawzan’s fatwa came from a similar edict in the Sharh Sahih al-Bukhari li Ibn Battal, which said the ulema, or Islamic scholars, agreed to permit fathers marry off their small daughters.
“The ulema have agreed that it is permissible for fathers to marry
off their small daughters, even if they are in the cradle,” the edict
declared."

DID THE U.N. OR THE U.S. DISAGREE WITH THIS OR EVEN BRING THE TOPIC UP FOR DISCUSSION?

NO.

MUSN'T ANGER THE OIL KING, THE OIL PRINCES, THE OIL PROVIDERS.

THEN, THIS:

As WND recently reported,
rich Saudi Arabian men – some associated with the Saudi royal family –
have been purchasing for their sexual pleasure Syrian girls and young
women from among the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing the
Syrian civil war conflict to Lebanon and Jordan.Most of these Saudi men are said to be in their 60s and 70s. When they tire of the girls, they often hand them off to other men.“They come into Lebanon and Jordan and go to the Syrian refugee camps
where the Syrian families there have nothing,” one Lebanese source told
WND. “The Saudis then offer $200 for girls aged 9 to 14 years and take
them from their families. Because the families are so desperate for
money, they give in to the temptation.”

SO, NO, THE EPA ISN'T TROUBLING ITSELF TO REPAIR ANY MONITORS, REPLACE ANY, AND SURELY IS NOT GOING TO ADD ANY.

EPA SHOULD DROP THAT "P" FOR 'PROTECTION', BECAUSE IT DOESN'T PROTECT MUCH BESIDES THE BIG CORPORATIONS WHO POLLUTE THE MOST... OR MAYBE CHANGE ITS NAME TO "WE REALLY SUCK"?

THE OLD PALISADES UNIT 1 NUCLEAR REACTOR IN MICHIGAN POSTED AN INCIDENT ON THE 24th OF MARCH.

"CONTROL ROOM VENTILATION DECLARED INOPERABLE
~Event Number: 5182003/24/2016 At approximately 0211 [EDT], on March 24, 2016, both control room
ventilation filtration trains were declared inoperable in accordance
with Technical Specification 3.7.10, Condition B, due to a control room
boundary door not being fully closed. Following routine security rounds,
the door was unable to be fully closed due to the door's locking bolts
not retracting back into the door body, causing interference between the
door and door frame."Mitigating actions have been implemented that ensure control room
envelope (CRE) occupant radiological exposures will not exceed limits,
and CRE occupants are protected from chemical and smoke hazards. Repairs
to the door are currently in progress."

AS FOR ILLINOIS, I AM POSTING THIS "JUST IN CASE", AS A RECORD THAT THIS WAS REPORTED BY THE WEBSITES <HERE> AND <HERE> .

RED ARROW SHOWS WIND DIRECTION FROM THE BYRON NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION TOWARD ST. CHARLES ON THE 21st.

11:20 AMTHAT'S QUITE A CLIMB IN JUST 20 MINUTES!

11:00AM

CHART SHOWS THE 3 BIG SPIKES..."Radiation levels in St. Charles, IL are more than ten times higher than
"typical" today and are still rising suddenly according to Geiger
counters from the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center. Levels of
Gamma radiation are presently at 459 Counts-Per-Minute (CPM) which is
more than ten times higher than the "typical" of 42 CPM. Just
yesterday, levels skyrocketed to 1092 CPM, which is twenty-six times
higher than "typical" and quite dangerous to be exposed to all day.This is the THIRD time in seven days that radiation
levels in this suburb of Chicago have suddenly spiked, far above the
"typical" level into what many nuclear professionals call "dangerous"
exposure. As of 12:30 PM EDT, Geiger counters are showing a dramatic drop in radiation levels, down to a "safe" level of 239 CPM and continuing to drop.WHO CAN SAY IF THE EPA's RADNET MONITORS ARE CORRECT?I DOUBT THEY'VE CHECKED THEM YET THIS YEAR.I CERTAINLY WOULD LIKE TO SEE MAYBE SOME RUSSIAN MONITORS SET IN THERE BESIDE THE EPA's CRAP, WOULDN'T YOU?FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL:

I HOPE YOU WILL THINK ABOUT THE FOLLOWING FOR A BIT....IT'S A REPORT ON THE NRC's WEBSITE ABOUT A MISSING TRITIUM EXIT SIGN.YES, ONE OF THOSE "GLOW-IN-THE-DARK" EXIT SIGNS.UNDERSTAND THAT THIS HAD TO BE REPORTED TO THE NRC.IT HAD TO BE REPORTED.IF NUCLEAR ENERGY, IF RADIATION IS SO SAFE, WHY DO THEY HAVE TO REPORT A SMALL MISSING SIGN WITH THAT "LOW LEVEL", "TEENY AMOUNT" OF TRITIUM IN IT?~ Event Number: 51781 Notification Date: 03/09/2016Licensee: NRG ENERGY SERVICESCity: NEW FLORENCE State: PAThe following report was received from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania via email and facsimile:
"Event Type: Loss of licensed material in a quantity greater than or equal to 1000 times the Appendix C quantities in part 20.
"Notifications: NRG Energy discovered the event on March 7, 2016,
[at their Seward, PA location,] and submitted a report to the Department
[Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection] on March 9, 2016.
This event is reportable as per 10 CFR 20.2201(a)(1)(i).
"Event Description: On Monday March 7, 2016, while conducting the
six month inventory check of the radioactive sources at the Seward Power
Plant, one tritium exit sign was found missing. The exit sign was
installed above a door located in Seward's Fuel Barn.

The last inventory
check was conducted September 11, 2015, and the exit sign was present
at that time. The exit sign was manufactured by EMERG-LITE and was an
Everlite series sign.

[ANYBODY WHO WANTED TO REMOVE ANYTHING FROM THERE WOULD HAVE 6 LONG MONTHS TO MAKE A GETAWAY, RIGHT? NOBODY WOULD MISS ANYTHING FOR 6 MONTHS.]The sign contained between 9.5 - 11.5 Ci of
tritium gas at the time of manufacture and was to be replaced before
February 2023. The sign was last known to be in good condition and not
damaged. No cause for the missing sign has been identified and no
exposures have been recorded at this time.
"Cause of the Event: Unknown at this time. The plant is currently searching the site and conducting interviews with personnel.

"Actions: The Department will be following up with the facility for
any additional information. The plant is also conducting refresher
radiation training to plant personnel. More information will be provided
upon receipt."
Pennsylvania Event Report ID No: PA160009.
THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "LESS THAN CAT 3" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL.NOW, READ ABOUT "LESS THAN CATEGORY 3""Sources that are "Less than IAEA Category 3 sources," are either sources
that are very unlikely to cause permanent injury to individuals or
contain a very small amount of radioactive material that would not cause
any permanent injury.

Some of these sources, such as moisture density
gauges or thickness gauges that are Category 4, the amount of unshielded
radioactive material, if not safely managed or securely protected,
could possibly - although it is unlikely - temporarily injure someone
who handled it or were otherwise in contact with it, or who were close
to it for a period of many weeks. For additional information go to http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1227_web.pdfNICE WORDING, YES?KEEPS THEIR BUTTS OUT OF THE PROVERBIAL SLING WHILE NOT SAYING OUTRIGHT THAT "LOW LEVEL" RADIATION IS DANGEROUS.

A SMALL EXIT SIGN...AND THEY'RE SCRAMBLING TO FIND IT, AND MAKING A REPORT TO THE NRC.

LIKE I SAID, THINK ABOUT THAT.

THEN THINK ABOUT THIS ONE, WITH SUPPOSEDLY EVEN LOWER "LOW LEVELS", BUT LOW LEVELS BUILT UP AND UP OVER TIME:After Glow - 90 Years Ago Workers At The Waterbury Clock Company Began Dying After Painting Radium On Clock Dials."Many of the women pressed their brushes between their lips before dipping
them in the radium-laced paint to give their small brushes a nice, fine
point. The gritty-textured paint tasted no worse than Elmer’s glue, but
it had a strange effect: It made their mouths glow in the dark. More than 40 dial painters died in Ottawa, Illinois.“The
suffering and deaths of these workers greatly increased the world’s
knowledge of the hazards of radioactivity, ultimately saving countless
lives of future generations, “ writes Ross Mullner, Author of “Deadly
Glow”.

MORE THAN 40 DIED, BUT THE EPA ISN'T CONCERNED ABOUT RADIATION IN/NEAR THOSE BUILDINGS, NO SIREE!

"The
radium contamination doesn’t pose an immediate public health threat,
like, say, benzene gas billowing into the air, or mercury leaching into
the groundwater, so the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
rejected these old factories as Superfund sites."

WHAT'S 40+ DEAD PEOPLE TO THE EPA, RIGHT?~ Event Number: 51806BYRON, ILLINOIS, NUCLEAR REACTORS 1 & 2Notification Date: 03/18/2016FITNESS FOR DUTY - CONFIRMED POSITIVE TEST FOR ALCOHOL
"In accordance with 10 CFR 26.719(b)(2)(ii), this notification
reports a non-licensed contracted employee supervisor had a confirmed
positive for alcohol during a random fitness for duty test. The
employee's access to the plant has been suspended."[HOW MANY ARE DISCOVERED "UNFIT FOR DUTY" EACH YEAR?I SEARCHED DILIGENTLY AND COULD NOT FIND ANYBODY, ANY AGENCY, KEEPING STATS ON THAT.]~ Event Number: 51809Notification Date: 03/20/2016Power ReactorLIMERICK ( in Pennsylvania)TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION (TS) REQUIRED SHUTDOWN DUE TO PRESSURE BOUNDARY LEAKAGE

"During a planned Unit 1 shutdown for a refueling outage, a 0.5 gpm
'pressure boundary leak' was identified on a 1 inch pipe connected to
the '1A' RHR-Shutdown Cooling return line by the drywell leak inspection
team during a drywell inspection at approximately 15% power. The leak
exceeded the TS 3.4.3.2 'Operational Leakage' LCO of no pressure
boundary leakage. TS action 'a' was entered which requires to be in at
least Hot Shutdown within 12 hours and Cold Shutdown within the next 24
hours. Therefore, the event is reportable within 4 hours per
10CFR50.72(b)(2)(i) due to the initiation of a plant shutdown required
by the plant's TS.
"The event is also reportable within 8 hours per 10CFR50.72(b)(3)(ii)
due to an event that resulted in the condition of the nuclear power
plant, including its principal safety barriers, being seriously
degraded.

"TS 1.28 defines Pressure Boundary Leakage as leakage through a
nonisolable fault in a reactor coolant system component body, pipe wall
or vessel wall; therefore, the leak is a 'pressure boundary leak' as
defined in TS."

UNANALYZED CONDITION THAT COULD CHALLENGE RHR EQUIPMENT DURING FLOOD CONDITIONS

(2"Two ) potentially degraded flood barriers at penetrations
0073-01-0034 and 0073-01-0063 were identified in the area between the
Unit 1 Turbine Building and Auxiliary Building. The deficient barriers
are a 'blockout section' of the floor designed to house multiple
penetrations that transition from the Turbine Building to the Auxiliary
Building. Attempts have been made to investigate the status of the flood
barrier with no definitive results. Investigations and additional
evaluations are continuing, however, it is currently unknown if the
aggregate of these two flood barriers could potentially overwhelm and
flood the Auxiliary Building which would challenge equipment necessary
to remove residual heat and constitute an unanalyzed condition.

"Based on current conditions (i.e., no forecast flooding
conditions), this condition does not present an immediate safety
concern.

"This condition has been determined to be reportable per 10 CFR
50.72(b)(3)(ii)(B) and 10 CFR 50.72(b)(3)(v)(B). This condition is a
non-emergency condition. This condition has been entered into the
Corrective Action Program.

"Compensatory measures have been prepared to allow placement of a
seal over the identified deficient barriers. If required these seals can
be installed well in advance of forecast flood conditions. Permanent
repairs are currently being designed for installation."~WATTS BAR IN TENNESSEE, AGAIN...AND AGAIN...AND... REACTOR UNIT 1Event Number: 51795Notification Date: 03/17/2016ACCIDENT MITIGATIONLOSS OF EMERGENCY AND AUXILIARY GAS TREATMENT SYSTEMS
"On March 17, 2016, at 0115 [EDT], Watts Bar Unit 1 (WBN1) entered
Technical Specification Limiting Condition of Operation (TS LCO) 3.0.3
due to the inoperability of both trains of the Emergency Gas Treatment
System (EGTS). TS LCO 3.7.12

Condition B was also entered at this time
due to the inoperability of both trains of the Auxiliary Gas Treatment
System (ABGTS).

The train B EGTS and train B ABGTS had been removed
from service for scheduled maintenance, when at 0115, the train A
Auxiliary Air Compressor became inoperable.

On March 17, 2016, at 0133,
the train A Auxiliary Air Compressor was declared OPERABLE, and TS LCO
3.0.3 and 3.7.12 Condition B were exited.
"The auxiliary air system supports the EGTS by providing a safety
grade air supply. When train A auxiliary air became inoperable, the
supported train A EGTS and ABGTS became inoperable, creating a condition
where both trains of EGTS and ABGTS were unavailable.

[READ THE NEXT SENTENCE MORE THAN ONCE, PLEASE.]

Filters in these system mitigate the release of radioactive contaminants to the environment.
"

THEY "MITIGATE" THE RELEASE OF RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINANTS INTO THE ENVIRONMENT... THEY JUST LESSEN THE RELEASE, BUT DO NOT, CANNOT STOP THE RELEASE.

ONE MORE EVENT, FOR NOW, TO MAKE THIS LIST SPAN JUST 7 DAYS IN THE LIVES OF OF OUR FAILING NUKE PLANTS, OUR DARLING DEATH MACHINES.AND I ONLY LIST THE "EVENTS" I FELT WERE MOST IMPORTANT.

VALID ENGINEERED SAFETY FEATURE SYSTEM ACTUATION DUE TO LIGHTNING STRIKE
"At 1515 [CDT] on March 17th 2016, Grand Gulf Nuclear Station
received a valid actuation signal of the Division 2 Engineered Safety
Feature (ESF) Load Shedding and Sequencing system. The actuation signal
was most likely caused by a lightning strike to the offsite power source
supplying this ESF bus. This caused a loss of the in service shutdown
cooling system and associated system actuations.
"Grand Gulf Nuclear Station (GGNS) was in Mode 5 at 85 [degrees] F
coolant temperature. Reactor Cavity was flooded to High Water Level with
a time to reach 200 [degrees] F of 7.5hrs. GGNS is conducting a planned
refuel outage with core alterations in progress. Systems were aligned
as follows:
"Division 2 Diesel Generator was OPERABLE and the associated ESF bus
aligned to transformer ESF12 (115KV Port Gibson offsite feeder).
Residual Heat Removal (RHR) system 'B' was in service in shutdown
cooling being supplied from this ESF bus (16AB) with Alternate Decay
Heat Removal available as a backup.
"Division 3 Diesel Generator was unavailable due to planned
maintenance on support systems. The associated ESF bus was also aligned
to transformer ESF12 (115KV Port Gibson offsite feeder).
"Division 1 Diesel Generator was available and the associated ESF
bus aligned to the transformer ESF 11 (Switchyard offsite power feeders
Baxter-Wilson and Franklin). Power was never lost to this bus. RHR 'A'
and Low Pressure Core Spray (LPCS) were not available due to planned
maintenance (tagged out of service).
"ESF 21 Transformer was out of service for planned maintenance.
"A suspected lightning strike caused a momentary perturbation in
power in the 115KV Port Gibson line causing the Division 2 Load Shedding
and Sequencing (LSS) system to actuate. This actuation caused a loss of
Residual Heat Removal system 'B' due to being shed (expected). The
Division 2 Diesel Generator started and tied onto the bus as expected,
restoring power in 7 seconds. Shutdown cooling was restored at 1518
[CDT] and was out of service for 3 mins 13 sec. Reactor coolant and
spent fuel pool temperatures remained at 85 [degrees] F throughout this
scenario. Core Alterations were suspended and fuel placed in its
designated location per the approved movement plan. Division 3 systems;
High Pressure Core Spray, Standby Service Water System 'C', and Division
3 Diesel Generator were tagged out of service for planned maintenance. Division 3 Diesel Generator received a valid actuation signal but did
not start due to being out of service. The Division 3 bus was restored
manually to ESF 11.
"All safety systems operated as expected for the loss of power to ESF 12 and Division 2 LSS actuation.
"

WAY TO GO, BOYS!GOOD JOB!

GOOD TO KNOW MY OLD SCHOOL CHUM WHO LIVES NEAR THERE WOULD'VE HAD OVER 7 HOURS TO RUN AWAY HAD THINGS GONE POORLY.(YOU'RE OKAY, TONY, BUT KEEP GAS IN THAT CAR!)

TO WRAP THIS UP, BELOW IS THE MOSTLY WORTHLESS EPA's 'RADNET' CHART THAT SHOWS THEIR TAKE ON THE CHICAGO AREA SPIKES, IN GAMMA GROSS COUNT ONLY.

LET'S NOT FORGET...St. Charles, Illinois, is NEAR Chicago, NOT IN CHICAGO.

AND LET'S ALSO REMEMBER THAT THE EPA WAS DAMNED BY THE INSPECTOR GENERAL AND THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IN OCTOBER 2015 BECAUSE ITS BETA MONITORS WERE NOT WORKING IN CHICAGO AND OTHER MAJOR CITIES, SO WHAT GOOD IS THAT CHART...IS MEASURING GAMMA ENOUGH?WALL STREET JOURNALOct. 19, 2015"A national radiation-monitoring system enhanced after the Sept. 11,
2001, terrorist attacks isn’t working as intended, with nearly
three-quarters of stations not checking for a type of radiation in real
time, including ones in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles."EPA officials said the beta-detection problem cropped up in 2006 when
they started putting the real-time monitors into the field.

The
agency can compensate for the lack of real-time beta data, officials
said, by relying on each RadNet station’s gamma-radiation monitor, which
hasn’t been affected by the interference.

Almost all radionuclides that
emit beta particles also emit gamma radiation, they said. Both types of
radiation can cause cancer.

ALMOST ALL? IS THE EPA FAKING DATA LIKE JAPAN HAS DONE AND BEEN CAUGHT DOING AT FUKUSHIMA?

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FURTHER READING, OTHER NUKE NEWS FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH...ALWAYS FOLLOW THE LINKS TO ORIGINAL SOURCES ON THE SITE THE FOLLOWING LINK TO.

~10:04 AM EST on March 23rd, 2016THESE CEMETERIES ARE NEAR THE HANFORD NUCLEAR SITE IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON.

"Sealed sources, unless they have been breached or are leaking, present a risk of external radiation exposure only. However, breached or leaking sealed sources, as well as unsealed radioactive materials, may give rise to contamination of the environment."'WTH' DOES THAT MEAN?